Green shoots in the euro areaa real time measure

  1. Camacho, Máximo
  2. Pérez-Quirós, Gabriel
  3. Poncela Blanco, Pilar
Revista:
Documentos de trabajo - Banco de España

ISSN: 0213-2710

Año de publicación: 2010

Número: 26

Páginas: 9-41

Tipo: Documento de Trabajo

Otras publicaciones en: Documentos de trabajo - Banco de España

Resumen

We show that an extension of the Markov-switching dynamic factor models that accounts for the speci cities of the day to day monitoring of economic developments such as ragged edges, mixed frequencies and data revisions is a good tool to forecast the Euro area recessions in real time. We provide examples that show the nonlinear nature of the relations between data revisions, point forecasts and forecast uncertainty. According to our empirical results, we think that the real time probabilities of recession are an appropriate statistic to capture what the press call green shoots.